Community Health and Care Assistant

About the job

Care

Community Health and Care Assistants in Geriatric Psychiatry

The University Service of Geriatric Psychiatry (SUPAA) is seeking several community health and care assistants at a workload between 80% and 100% to strengthen its teams. The starting date is planned for 1 August 2026 or to be agreed.

Would you like to join a warm, dynamic and passionate team in a green setting with several development opportunities? Then keep reading!

Context

The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) is one of the 5 Swiss university hospitals. Thanks to its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and EPFL, CHUV plays a leading role in medical care, medical research and education.

The SUPAA University Service of Geriatric Psychiatry (SUPAA) - CHUV is a specialised service whose mission is to ensure care, teaching and research in the field of psychiatry of the elderly. Over its six decades of existence, SUPAA has diversified its structures and intervention methods in order to constantly improve its clinical services and maintain optimal continuity of care, teaching and research.

It has thus developed outpatient structures (general consultations in geriatric psychiatry, participation in memory consultations, trans-age interventional psychiatry), liaison consultations in geriatric psychiatry at CHUV, in regional hospitals of northern and western Vaud and in nursing homes, as well as mobile teams.

Within our institution, community health and care assistants foster interprofessional collaboration and are involved in welcoming new colleagues, training apprentices, caring for patients and also in service and institutional projects.

Your benefits as a community health and care assistant at CHUV:

• Upon arrival, you benefit from a progressive and personalised integration plan
• You work in pairs with a nurse, while maintaining a certain autonomy in your care provision
• We support our assistants who wish to develop their professional project (for example: bachelor in nursing)
• You encounter a variety of practices regarding pathologies, patient groups and care pathways. You thus have the opportunity to broaden your expertise by acquiring knowledge and developing additional skills
• You benefit from regular training and professional development opportunities to enrich your skills in psychiatry and elderly care
• The possibility to get involved in training by becoming a workplace trainer (FPT) or actively participating in passing on your skills to apprentices
• Our management is caring and participative; you are supported throughout your professional journey

Mission

• You responsibly and autonomously support the patients in your care and compensate for the incapacities of dependent persons in performing daily living activities
• You carry out activities delegated to you by qualified nursing staff
• You provide, under delegation, medico-technical acts in stable situations that do not present an emergency
• You perform administrative and logistical tasks related to your activity, mainly concerning the patients you care for
• You work as part of a team and respect the institution's rules.

Profile

• You hold a Federal Certificate of Competence (CFC) as a community health and care assistant or are about to obtain it
• You demonstrate a strong sense of responsibility as well as a dynamic, motivated and committed attitude
• Ideally, you have experience with elderly people or show a strong interest in this population
• You possess good writing skills
• You master the usual IT tools necessary for your activity.

We offer

Becoming a collaborator of the Lausanne University Hospital means benefiting from:

• First-class social benefits, 20 days paternity leave and 4 months maternity leave (with the possibility of an additional month of breastfeeding leave).
• Regular salary progression adapted to responsibilities.
• A 13th salary and 25 days of holiday per year.
• A minimum of three days of training per year, with access to a varied offer within the CHUV Training Centre and partner training centres of the State of Vaud.
• Facilitated access to one of the 500 furnished apartments offered in the surrounding neighbourhoods for people relocating to Switzerland from abroad.
• Social, cultural and economic benefits offered to members of the H-Oxygène association.
• Benefits offered within the mobility plan (discounts on public transport subscriptions, promotion of "Mobility" vehicles and discounts on the purchase of electric bikes).
• Hotel-quality staff restaurants in each hospital building, with preferential rates.

Contact and application submission

Contact for information about the position: Ms Patricia Xavier Batista, Deputy Director of Care, at 079 556 50 69.

As all our applications are processed electronically, we kindly ask you to apply exclusively online by clicking the APPLY button at the bottom of the announcement.

If you have difficulty applying, you can consult our procedure on how to apply online. If for technical reasons you cannot apply online, please contact our Recruitment Unit who will assist you in your process, either by email at e.recrutement@chuv.ch or by phone at 021 314 85 70.

As part of the recruitment process for this position, if hired, you will be required to provide an original criminal record extract. You will also be asked to present your original diplomas and an identity document.

CHUV applies the highest quality standards in its recruitment processes. Furthermore, committed to promoting diversity among our collaborators, we pay attention to different life paths and do everything possible to ensure equal treatment and avoid any discrimination. We look forward to receiving your application.

We kindly ask placement agencies to note that applications submitted directly on our recruitment platform by them are not accepted and cannot be invoiced. Thank you for your understanding.